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Alex Morgan and Stefanie van der Gragt battle for the ball during the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup final in Lyon, France

Women's association football, more commonly known as women's football or women's soccer, is the team sport of association football played by women. It is played at the professional level in multiple countries, and about 200 national teams participate internationally. The same rules, known as the Laws of the Game, are used for both women's and men's football. The United States is the most successful nation in women's football, having won 4 Women's World Cups and 5 Olympic gold medals. The second most successful nation in women's football is Germany, with 2 Women's World Cups and 1 Olympic gold medal.

After the "first golden age" of women's football occurred in the United Kingdom in the 1920s, with one match attracting over 50,000 spectators, the Football Association instituted a ban from 1921 to 1970 in England that disallowed women's football on the grounds used by its member clubs. In many other nations, female footballers faced similarly hostile treatment and bans by male-dominated organisations.

In the 1970s, international women's football tournaments were extremely popular, and the oldest surviving continental championship was founded, the AFC Women's Asian Cup. However, a woman did not speak at the FIFA Congress until 1986 (Ellen Wille). The FIFA Women's World Cup was first held in China in 1991 and has since become a major television event in many countries. (Full article...)

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Fishlock with the Seattle Reign in 2024

Jessica Anne Fishlock MBE (born 14 January 1987) is a Welsh professional footballer and coach who plays as a midfielder for Seattle Reign FC and the Wales national team. She is Wales's all-time record goal scorer. She previously played for Bristol Academy in England's FA Women's Super League (FA WSL), AZ Alkmaar in the Dutch Eredivisie, Glasgow City FC in the Scottish Women's Premier League, Melbourne Victory and Melbourne City in Australia's W-League, as well as Bundesliga club FFC Frankfurt in Germany.

Fishlock was named Welsh Footballer of the Year in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2019. She became the first Welsh player to earn 100 caps for the national team in April 2017. She has won multiple championships and regular season titles with the teams she has played for including the two consecutive Eredivisie championships, four W-League Grand Final championships, Scottish Women's Premier League and Scottish Women's Cup titles, and two consecutive NWSL Shield wins. Although Fishlock returned to Seattle prior to the 2015 UEFA Women's Champions League Final after playing on loan for FFC Frankfurt, her contributions to the team's journey to the title subsequently earned her a UEFA Women's Champions League medal. In 2021, she received the NWSL Most Valuable Player award with the Reign. (Full article...)

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The United States women's national soccer team celebrate their 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup win during a ticker tape parade in New York City

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... that Cambodia women's national football team faces several challenges including women's football not being popular in Cambodia and, as of 2006^[update], no teams for women to play on? (1 July 2012)
... that Canada striker Christine Sinclair was named one of the 25 most influential people in Canadian sports before she turned 20?
... that Netherlands Antilles women's national football team faces development challenges because football is only the sixth most popular sport in the country? (26 May 2012)
... that Trabzonspor were the first Turkish soccer team entitled to participate in the UEFA Women's Champions League? (19 September 2009)
... that Emilia Appelqvist was the captain of the Swedish team at the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup? (8 July 2013)
... that women in Kenya created the Kenya women's national football team independent of Football Kenya Federation? (2 July 2012)

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Image 1United States' Abby Wambach plays off a corner kick against Canada.
Image 2A Welsh women's football team pose for a photograph in 1959 (from Women's association football)
Image 3Mia Hamm (left) battles with German defender Kerstin Stegemann (from Women's association football)
Image 4Japanese high-school girls playing football in their traditional hakama with one team wearing sashes (c. 1920) (from Women's association football)
Image 5The official record attendance for a women's football match was set at Camp Nou on 22 April 2022, with 91,648 people watching Barcelona defeat Wolfsburg 5–1 (pictured). (from Women's association football)
Image 6Megan Rapinoe speaks on equal pay in March 2021. (from Women's association football)
Image 7Women's FA Cup (left) trophy on display beside the men's trophy (right). (from Women's FA Cup)
Image 8North team of the British Ladies' Football Club, 1895 (from Women's association football)
Image 9Arsenal and Charlton contest the 2007 FA Women's Cup final at the City Ground (from Women's FA Cup)
Image 10Everton players with the FA Women's Cup trophy in 2010 (from Women's FA Cup)
Image 11Striker Cristiana Girelli and coach Rita Guarino of Juventus in 2019. Juventus is one of the most storied and successful football clubs in Italy. (from Women's association football)
Image 12Marta of Brazil is the all-time leading scorer of the senior FIFA World Cups. (from Women's association football)
Image 13Iran vs Turkey in 2010 Youth Olympics (from Women's association football)
Image 14FC de Rakt DA1 (2008/2009) (from Women's association football)
Image 15Goalkeeper Zahra Khajavi of the Iran women's national football team (from Women's association football)
Image 16Portland Thorns traveling supporters at Seattle's Memorial Stadium (from Women's association football)
Image 17Florida State vs North Carolina, 2005 (from Women's association football)
Image 18Arsenal after winning the Women's FA Cup in 2007 (from Women's association football)
Image 19Sam Kerr with Australia during the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup quarterfinal against Japan in Edmonton, 2015 (from Women's association football)
Image 20Players fighting for the ball during the match between Germany and Norway in UEFA Women's Euro 2009 in Tampere, Finland (from Women's association football)
Image 21Olympique Lyonnais vs Paris Saint-Germain (from Women's association football)
Image 22The Urawa Red Diamonds Ladies (from Women's association football)

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The Japan women's national football team (Japanese: サッカー日本女子代表, Hepburn: Sakkā Nippon Joshi Daihyō), commonly known as Nadeshiko Japan (なでしこジャパン), represents Japan in women's association football and is run by the Japan Football Association (JFA). One of the two countries to win every FIFA competition and the most successful women's national team in the Asian Football Confederation, its highest ranking in the FIFA Women's World Rankings is 3rd, achieved in December 2011.

Nadeshiko Japan defeated the United States in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Final, thus claiming their first FIFA Women's World Cup title, becoming the first Asian team to do so and only the fourth women's world champions. It won silver medals at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, making it the only Asian team to have three combined medals from international championships. It also won gold medals at the 2014, 2018 and 2026 AFC Women's Asian Cups, the 2010 and 2018 Asian Games, and the 2008, 2010, and 2019 EAFF Football Championships. (Full article...)

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v t e Women's association football
Overview	Geography FIFA Women's World Player of the Year FIFA Team Rankings National teams Club/Association teams Player lists
Competitions	Women's World Cup Olympics Algarve Cup Cyprus Cup Four Nations Tournament SheBelieves Cup U-20 World Cup U-17 World Cup More...
Cinema	Bend It Like Beckham (2002) Dare to Dream (2005) Offside (2006) Gracie (2007) Her Best Move (2007) Football Under Cover (2008) SEC Storied (2013) An Equal Playing Field (2015)
Stage	Bend It Like Beckham: The Musical (2015)
Television series	Just for Kicks (2002) Nine for IX (2013) The Kicks (2015) Keeping Score (2016)
Video games	Mia Hamm Soccer 64 (2000) FIFA 16 (2015) FIFA 17 (2016) FIFA 18 (2017) FIFA 19 (2018)
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v t e Top level women's football leagues of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean (CONCACAF)
North America	Canada Mexico United States NWSL USLS
Central America	Belize Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panama
Caribbean	Bermuda Jamaica Puerto Rico Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago

v t e Top level women's football leagues of Europe (UEFA)
Current	Albania Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands Finland France Georgia Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Iceland Israel Italy Kazakhstan Kosovo Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Northern Ireland Norway Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales
Previous	Belgium & Netherlands Czechoslovakia England Soviet Union
Andorra, Liechtenstein and San Marino are the only UEFA member associations without a national league.